title: Outcomes after pulmonary metastasectomy for colorectal cancer.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Surgical resection offers the greatest likelihood of cure for appropriately selected patients with pulmonary colorectal carcinoma metastases. We hereby report our experience over the last 19 years at the Austin Hospital, Thoracic Surgery Unit.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a retrospective study of a consecutive series of patients with pulmonary colorectal cancer metastases. From 1994 to 2012, 66 patients underwent 83 pulmonary metastasectomies for colorectal cancer at the Austin Hospital.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy per cent of patients were operated on for single pulmonary metastases. The most common procedure performed was a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery wedge resection. Median follow-up duration was 25 months. Three-, five-, seven- and ten-year survival was 53.4, 39.6, 34.6 and 23.1%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pulmonary metastasectomy for metastatic colorectal carcinoma continues to offer the greatest survival advantage for appropriately selected patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Austin Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Nisal K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Perera
authors.forename: Simon R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D059146:Metastasectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D013908:Thoracotomy; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: colorectal cancer; metastasectomy; oncology; pulmonary neoplasm; thoracic surgery